Crossley: 260 books
The Crossley ID Guide
Eastern Birds
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This stunningly illustrated book from acclaimed birder and photographer Richard Crossley revolutionizes field guide design by providing the first real-life approach to identification. Whether you are a beginner, expert, or anywhere in between, The Crossley ID Guide will vastly improve your ability...
The Canals of Harley Crossley
An Artist's View of Boats and Waterways
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Harley Crossley was a professional artist for over forty years. Painting in oils using knives, the range of his work included landscapes, ships, cars, traction engines and canals. In the 1960s Harley and his wife spent a month on a narrow boat cruising the canals and this was the beginning of a life-long...
Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction
George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless distinguishable...
From Ocean Liner to Cruise Ship
The Marine Art of Harley Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Harley Crossley paints for the major shipping lines, with his work adorning many cruise ships. His artwork is the signature painting of Queen Victoria, the new Cunarder, due December 2010. Author available for signings and demonstrations. Harley Crossley is one of Britain's foremost marine artists...
Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion
The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In this important book Nick Crossley examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Dominant explanations of these developments have tended to focus upon strains and frustrations, both social and aesthetic, which are said to have provoked...
Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans
Religion in Contemporary English Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.*BR**BR*From the paternalistic Christianity used to justify ever-intensifiying neoliberalism, to the ethnonationalist and economic protectionist Christianity...
Thrilling Wonder Adventure Stories
A 15 Ebook Boxset
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In the tradition of the pulp magazines the Thrilling Wonder Adventure bundle offers you a wide range of short science fiction by some of today's best writers. You will discover alternate realities, strange aliens, meet super humans transformed by aliens, a time traveling oak tree, meet the end of...
by Lance Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
***A 2018 SPR Book Awards Honourable Mention***
***A National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist***
***A B.R.A.G. Medallion Recipient***
A powerful new novel that forcefully places the reader into the brutality of Canada's infamous residential school system.
"Raw... gritty...no single...
You Really Couldn't Make It Up
More Hilarious Bizarre-but-True Stories from Around Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
After the runaway success of You Couldn't Make It Up, Jack Crossley has compiled a second selection of anecdotes from around the British Isles. In his many years as a newspaper journalist, Jack Crossley has collected literally thousands of these strange-but-true newspaper items. They are stories that...
by Russ Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
In a world where she who's the fattest wins, one woman eats alone.
In the novel, Attack of the Lushites we first met Trixie Pug, CEO of the second most powerful fast food corporation in the galaxy. But how did she rise to control such a powerful and greasy corporation?
In this first...
Shambles
A Nine Ebook Set Of Zombie Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Zombies are the most misunderstood of all the famous monsters in the world of fiction. This collection shows how the zombie myth can be severely bent out of shape to find the squishy, soft, humorous center where zombies love, laugh, and occasionally find a few brains to munch on. Come along for the...
by Russ Crossley, J. D. Brink, Blaze Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the tradition of classic pulp crime fiction these talented writers are sharing their takes on strange and weird detectives in strange worlds:
Paranormal detective, Amanda Dark, seeks answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner from the ghost of her dead uncle.
Dean Wesley Smith asks the...
by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon, librettist, reteller of traditional tale and novelist for children. The Mountains of Norfolk brings together poems from eight previous collections, spare yet sensuous, bearing witness to relationships, history, East Anglia, language and the...
by John Newsome Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book ('Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age') this new work further expands our understanding of the Spanish Philippines by looking at Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas and his son Luis, successive governors from 1589. Drawing upon a...